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name: personal-chief-of-staff

description: Use when the user wants to complete a daily journal or wind down, requests a daily chief-of-staff review or a weekly or quarterly review, asks to set up, list, add, update, or remove chief-of-staff source mappings, approves, resumes, or otherwise decides visible chief-of-staff actions, or another workflow requests current cross-source chief-of-staff context. Do not use for morning briefings, start-of-day planning, or same-day triage of what needs attention, or for isolated task creation, issue writing, email processing, calendar editing, health analysis, meeting preparation, or project planning.

license: MIT

compatibility: Requires host file capabilities, private persistent storage, and access to the user's chosen authoritative sources. Obsidian workflows require a running Obsidian app and its CLI.

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# Personal Chief of Staff

Help the user review current evidence, correct their sources, and choose what

comes next. Existing systems remain authoritative; keep the review in the

conversation until the user approves specific source changes.

## Route the current message

Read [source-access.md](references/source-access.md) before the first source

access or write on every path. Load other resources only when the matched path

below names them. Resolve the message in this order:

1. **Visible review action decisions:** bind approvals, edits, deferrals, and

skips to the exact displayed bundle and its originating mode. A bare number

is usable only when the visible context identifies its action. Load that

mode's reference and [action-application.md](references/action-application.md),

plus [crm-companion.md](references/crm-companion.md) for a

relationship-derived effect. Perform the current pre-write checks and

readback without new review discovery. Load

[source-bindings.md](references/source-bindings.md) only when the approved

target cannot otherwise be resolved; stop that action if its binding

remains unresolved.

2. **Answers to a Frontier Round:** interpret numbers against the most recent

question round and continue the mode and phase that asked it, with the

resources that run loaded.

3. **Source setup and management:** when asked to establish, list, add, update,

or remove review source mappings, or when replying to a binding preview,

load [source-bindings.md](references/source-bindings.md) and resolve the

requested mapping operation with the user. Existing mappings go directly to

that operation without restarting the category interview. This path opens

no mode; finish it under

[Finish standalone setup](references/source-bindings.md#finish-standalone-setup).

4. **A new review:** select one mode below. An explicit mode wins. Load

[source-bindings.md](references/source-bindings.md) and resolve the private

map before the mode's source retrieval. Before retrieval, also load

[review-reasoning.md](references/review-reasoning.md), the mode reference,

and [review-bundle.md](assets/review-bundle.md). Load

[action-application.md](references/action-application.md) before proposing

the first action, and [crm-companion.md](references/crm-companion.md) when

the companion is available to Wind-down or Weekly or evidence makes a person

materially relevant.

5. **Cross-source context for another workflow:** load

[source-bindings.md](references/source-bindings.md) for only the roles that

caller's decision needs. Return the retrieved context with its Source

Access Audit and leave the narrower operation with the caller. This path

opens no mode.

A reply to an earlier bundle in an unfinished run continues that run:

Wind-down Phase 1 decisions lead into Phase 2 without a new review request,

loading any path-4 resource not already loaded.

If a message decides actions and requests a new review or cross-source context,

resolve the old decisions first. Finish Phase 2 when the decisions belong to a

Wind-down Phase 1 bundle. Then begin the newly requested read-only discovery;

its evidence cannot reinterpret the earlier approval. Use one audit, separating

Action access from Review discovery or Context discovery.

| Mode | Request | Read before retrieval |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Wind-down | Close the day, complete the daily journal, reflect, prepare tomorrow, or run a daily review, including a scheduled wind-down | [wind-down.md](references/wind-down.md) |

| Weekly | Complete or discuss a weekly review | [weekly.md](references/weekly.md) |

| Quarterly | Complete or discuss a quarterly review | [quarterly.md](references/quarterly.md) |

Generic daily review wording selects Wind-down. A request outside these paths

stays with the narrower workflow that owns it.

Completion: the current reply is bound to its visible action or question

context, or one new mode, setup, or caller-context path is selected, with the

resources its path names loaded.

## Review together

Follow the selected mode interactively. Retrieve, compare, and draft objective

content; the user supplies or explicitly approves subjective meaning, causal

lessons, strategic judgment, and central published thinking. Present external

changes as independently approvable actions using the review-bundle asset.

Completion: the user can correct the review and approve, edit, defer, or skip

each proposed effect independently.

## End explicitly

Use exactly one run ending. A standalone setup run conducts no review; judge

its ending by

[Finish standalone setup](references/source-bindings.md#finish-standalone-setup).

- **Nothing material:** sufficient evidence supported no attention or action.

- **Partial:** a useful review finished with named material evidence limits.

- **Unable to prepare reliably:** missing central evidence prevents a

trustworthy review.

- **Paused:** the user intends to continue later, or a scheduled run awaits

user interaction.

- **Skipped:** the user chose not to conduct the review.

[resumption rules](references/source-access.md#end-and-resume-honestly) when

continuing later.

Completion: the ending matches the evidence and the recap matches the changes

verified in authoritative sources.